To make a bouquet

 To make a bouquet 

Paul Gauguin

1880

I always enjoy a visit with Gauguin

Never know who he may be painting 

I like how he has lovely flowers always

To arrange into my own bouquet.

The silence

 It is in the silence

that my hope is, and my aim.

A song whose lines

I cannot make or sing

sounds men’s silence

like a root. Let me say

and not mourn: the world

lives in the death of speech

and sings there.

Wendell Berry

Trespassing shadow

Press Ruth Road

The 100th Revelation

 The 100th Revelation 

And as soon as

As if on a satur Day

I was in the sodra

Whether inside

Or outside

I could not tell.

Like a Degas

She was once a ballarina doll  

Seamless in her Port de bras  

We likened her to a painting by Degas  

Then the Soubresant and the ballon was gone

Then comes Jasmine

 Jasmine time

Just when I lament the Sandhill departing

the camellia from the freeze languishing 

then comes the climbing jasmine

and once more my spirit is lifting

Springs Stage

 Springs stage

Johnclarestokes  

Soon enter the dogwood bloom

Awaiting in the wings in awaiting their turn

As came the azaleas and camellia 

before them

each called to the grand stage

some to minor parts only passing

others in major roles of glory

each adding to the wonderful story

the least as vital in the aubade 

Unable to contain our applause.

The burning white bush

Live Oak

Ivermectin

Posted to have for my own reference 

Mix 3 milliliters in a glass of Orange juice and down it. About twice a month but do yall  REMEMBER WHEN the Media laughed and said ivermectin was ONLY for horses and cows? THEY KNEW it was made for people since 1987. 

Here’s what they didn’t tell you 👇

1 – It prevents the damage caused by drugs created using mRNA technology, blocks the entry of Spike Protein into cells and, if the person was vaccinated, they can treat themselves for damage already done through Ivermectin.

2 – It only has beneficial effects and no harmful effects in the treatment of the C virus. In fact, even before entering the cell, it has already destroyed the virus in the blood.

3 – It has a very powerful anti-inflammatory action against and has a powerful impact on traumatic and orthopedic injuries, it strengthens muscles and has no side effects like corticosteroids.

4 –It treats autoimmune ailments such as: rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, fibromyalgia, psoriasis, Crohn's disease, allergic rhinitis.

5 – It improves the immunity levels in cancer patients and treats Herpes Simplex and Herpes Zoster, plus reduces the frequency of sinusitis and diverticulitis.

6 – It protects the heart in cardiac overload. In an embolism for example, it prevents cardiac hypoxia because it stimulates the production of basic energy so that the tissue is not destroyed and thus improves cardiac function.

7 – It is anti-parasitic, anti-neoplastic (anti-cancer). Allegedly, it suppresses the proliferation and metastasis of cancer cells, preserving healthy cells and improving the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatment.

8 - It can kills cancer cells resistant to chemotherapy, defeating the resistance to multiple chemo-therapeutics that tumors develop, and combined with chemotherapy and/or anti-cancer agents, it provides an increase in the effectiveness of these treatments.

9 – It is antimicrobial (bacteria and viruses) and increases immunity.

10 – It reaches the Central Nervous System and regenerates the nerves.

11 – It helps to regulates glucose, insulin metabolism, cholesterol levels and reduces liver fat in steatose.

12 - It can be used as a prophylactic agent and has been associated with a significant reduction in infection, hospitalization and mortality rates due to C-19.

The vase

 The Vase

Paul Klee

I went to my friend Paul Klee

For certainly he had an arrangement 

All he did was give a vase to me

Now go, bouquet boy, you fill it!

Winters rose

 Winters rose

I think she knows 

this winter rose that goes

in her rhodora vase

this buds for her

To kill a reenactment

 To kill a mockingbird

I do not relish dwelling upon the down sides as there is so much of the up side worth celebrating. I have been attending the annual Battle of Olustee re-enactment in Baker County since the inception and long before the Blue-Grey Army got in on the Olustee BATTLE festival began by Vernon Douglas and the Lake City Runners Club, piggy backing generously off the events in Olustee 16 miles to the east. 

This year, with the too easy covid precautions to blame, the Blue-Grey Army put on a festival with as little connection to the Re-enactment as possible, cancelling the parade that was once full of marching confederates and union, ladies in hoop skirts and such, cancelling the skirmish around the lake, no Monitor or Merrimack, not participating in the Oak Lawn Cemetery Memorial, no Running Rebel Fun Run, moving the event away from Marion Street and Olustee Park to the crowded, I guess Covid doesn’t care if it’s a food or craft venue off Lake DeSoto. Except for the historical museum which still offered period demonstrations, the festival was little more than a food, craft and music gathering with no tie to the reason it got its name or history. 

To most, fine. What more is there than food and music?

And now to my frustration with the battle. Once you could park along 90 and walk to the event. Those who arrived early, as I often did, could park by the entrance and carry your wagon with chairs and blankets and stake out a good viewing spot. It was deemed a few years ago by FHP too dangerous to park along US90 after many years, so you now must park in Olustee and at the prison a mile east and catch a bus to the park, wearing a mask of course, due to that pesky Covid again. No room for carrying chairs and such. And following the battle, which you’d be advised to leave in the third quarter as on the commercial of being just like your parents, if you stuck around for the volley, you’d still be standing in line to catch the bus. Things that cause people to say, not again, and thus little by little it dwindles down.

But maybe that is fine. I remember when we’d gather by the monument and the ranger would walk the gathered group out to the field to watch the re-enactment.

Olustee in Lake City is dead and I’d recommend the Blue-Grey Army die as well and sink your efforts into the Pioneer Festival Chris Esing put on with such success earlier in the year.

Tears of gray

In 2013 James Rourks, Attendandt to the late Col.Bowman of the Department of the Gulf, was in tears as he visited his grandfathers grave at Olustee for the first time. Jump to 2023 and the tears for another Cason at Olustee.

Whispers

 I hear in the morning reveille

The sweet whispers from Auralea  

And in my arms will she ever be 

 As today we face the Union at Olustee